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Disability income insurance, or disability insurance (Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung) , is a type of insurance that includes paid sick leave and disability benefits. It is designed to insure peoples’ income against any kind of disability that will negatively affect their earning potential. Disability insurance is a very important example of a modern day employment protection mechanism, and one that many employees have come to regard as essential in their working lives. Along with a number of other equal working policies and practices, disability cover is one kind of insurance benefit that defines modern day working policy. Disability insurance is provided by both government sources and life insurance companies (www.lifeinsurance.org/life-insurance-companies/) , although in most developed countries it is the national government who is the single most important provider. A number of private organisations also implement disability insurance schemes for their employees, which generally cover workers’ compensation and basic disability policies.

Workers’ compensation is the most well known and well implemented type of private disability insurance, and relates to any job-related sickness or injury that negatively affects an employees ability to work. Workers’ comp, or compo, can often provide a number of benefits other than simple income insurance, including compensation for economic loss, payment of medical expenses, and general payments for suffering and loss. Workers’ compensation is a very important issue for a number of employees, many of whom undergo detailed insurance comparison checks before they accept employment from an organisation. Workers’compensation and other forms of disability insurance have also become a very important issue for employers, who provide disability insurance as a way to ensure adequate cover for their employees and remain competitive in the global employment marketplace.

Along with a number of large scale schemes implemented by national governments, like National Insurance in the United Kingdom and Social Security in the United States of America, and the various workers’ compensation schemes implemented by various private organisations, there are also other types of disability insurance and income support for modern day workers. A number of Veterans’ benefit policies, life insurance policies, and health insurance policies also directly cover income compensation and support, and are taken out by people specifically to cover them against the threat of income loss in the case of disability. Many of these policies have become so well integrated into modern society, that it is often up to individual employers to ensure that they have the right policies to attract the right employees to their organisation.